Missing me
by Sophie McKenzie
Language: English
London : Simon and Schuster, 2012.
290 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780857077271; 0857077279
Summary: Six years have passed since the end of 'Sister, Missing'. Madison is now a teenager and learns that their biological father was an anonymous sperm donor and sets out to track him down. Her search bears fruit sooner than she expects, but is the father she discovers all he seems? As Madison gets drawn into a mysterious investigation involving missing girls and secret hideaways, she finds herself in more and more danger.
http://www.sophiemckenziebooks.com/
Dads, geeks and blue haired freaks
by Ellie Phillips
Language: English
London : Electric Monkey, 2012.
295 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9781405258197; 1405258195
Summary: Sadie Nathanson spends her life trying to survive the excruciating embarrassment of simply existing. It's hard enough being a bit of a shrinking violet within a loud and outspoken extended family, but the unexpected card from 'Dad' on her 15th birthday is the last straw. As 'Dad' was an Internet sperm-donor, it doesn't take a genius to work out that this is a bad joke, probably set up by her ex-best-friend Shonna. But it starts Sadie wondering - just who was her father? Is he the cause of her worry crinkle and wonky bum? What would happen if she tracked him down? So she decides to do just that. With help from her nerd cousin Billy, his friend Nodding Tony and a regular dose of 'Haironomics' (Sadie's own hairstyle-related philosophy system), they uncover a lot more than they bargain for.
http://www.elliephillips.co.uk/
Catch & release
by Blythe Woolston
Language: English
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, ©2012.
210 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780761377559; 0761377557
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Polly and impulsive, seventeen-year-old Odd survive an deadly outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria, but resulting wounds have destroyed their plans for the future and with little but their unlikely friendship and a shared affection for trout fishing, they set out on a road trip through the West.
http://www.blythewoolston.net/
My mixed-up berry blue summer
by Jennifer Gennari
Language: English
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012.
119 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780547577395; 0547577397
Summary: Twelve-year-old June Farrell spends the summer at her Vermont home getting used to the woman her mother is planning to marry and practicing her pie-baking skills, as she hopes to win the blue ribbon at the fair.
http://www.jengennari.com/
Spenderkind
by Katrin Stehle
Language: German
Stuttgart : Gabriel Verlag/Thienemann, 2012.
237 pp.
ISBN: 9783522302845; 3522302842
Summary from Google Translate: Lina has great parents and her friend Julian. She is envied by many. But a day can change EVERYTHING. The day when Lina learns that her father is not her biological father. Is he really still your father? And as if that were not confusing enough, Lina feels suddenly attracted to Nick as well as to Julian. What matters more - the old or the new, the genes or the emotions? Lina has to find out necessarily where it belongs. A book about love, family ties and the search for identity.
Interview with the author: http://cms.thienemann.de/index.php?option=com_thienemann§ion=2&av=3&Itemid=11&view=interview&interid=74
http://www.katrinstehle.de/
